The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE little girl who was cross every night said
that it was because her mother put her to bed
surly.
MRS LANGTRY helped the American eagle to
scream on the Fourth by reciting a patriotic
poem in San Francisco.
JAY GOULD is cruising about New London in
his yacht, and the frightened Connecticut farm
talk of taking their farms in over night.
A KEoKUK business man advertises that he
has marked his goods down to bedrock, and that
il he should go below that the result would be
gas.
To carry a sun umbrella in summer is sensi-
BILE thing for to do. and also nowadays
quite the proper thing from fashionable point
of view.
JAY GOULD stocks his steam yacht, the Ata-
lanta, with fine wines and liquors for other peo-
pie. but takes nothing himself He is not
temperance man principle, but has no taste
for such beverages
TT is intimated that Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke
and Mr. Cooke this month to be confirmed
in the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop
Williams of Connecticut Hitherto they have
belonged to the Congregational communion.
BOARD of survey has estimated that it will
require $175,O to put Farraguts old flagship
the Hartford, in a seaworthy condition. It is
doubtful if the department. will decide to fit her
her up. and she will probably take place in the
Rotten Row at Mare island.
JOHN A WILLIAMS of California, has given
to charity over $500, 600, and he now says that
If he had his life to live over again he would let
the poor and the public take care of themselves
His worst enemies are the men he has picked
out OF the gutter and given chance to succeed.
MEADvILLE PA Theological Seminary has
conferred the degree of Bachelor of Divinity
upon Marion Murdoch, pastor of the Unitarian
Church at Humboldt, Ia. This is the first in
stance of the kind in America. She is about
thirty six years old and very eloquent preacher.
In the Sydney (Australia) lighthouse is the
largest electric light in the world. It has pow
er of $50, 900 candles, and may be seen from ships
fifty miles out at sea- The next largest is in the
Palais d'Industrie, and has a power OF 100000
candles. The largest light in America is "a. 900
candle power 1t is at San Jose, Cal.
JULES VERNE is fifty-nine, and with the ex-
ception of stiff knee, caused by shot from an
insane nephew. is hale and hearty. He writes
two novels year. thinks there is no place like
America, though he never spent more than a
week here, and always gives an American char
acter an honorable place in his books.
IT is a curious fact that any great hotel-keeper
in New York will be ready to corroborate that
many people who come to New York and put up
at the "crack" hotels depart withou> eeing the
porter and pack a family oe four coupe
to save paying SO for hackne co. i. All to
be able to say: I'VE put up such hotel and
paid $40 day for our room"
ARTHUR BACON. one of the proprietors of the
Ship Hotel, Brighton, England. whose death is
announced was the very double of Dickens
''Major Bagstock." Many remember his double
breasted blue frock coat with its invariable but
tonhole bouquet; but his voice, unlike joey B. IS
hoarse chuckle, a futy treble. earning for
him the sobriquet of ''Squeaky Bacon"
Col. DANIEL SHELBY, of Chicago, the actor
and manager, who has been on the stage longer
than the veteran Couldock, has petitioned the
courts to legalize his right to the of
Shelby He born at Gettysburg in 1888.
and his real name is Maher. The name under
which he has won fame and fortune should, he
thinks, be pronounced his for all time.
One Of the strangsst of religious sects is that
which calls itself the New and Latter House of
Israel Its headquarters is Chatham. England,
in which town it's devotees building an i'm
mense temple which will cost $3.50, 900. They
believe that they will not die; that they are the
remnant of true Israelites, who will reign with
Christ for 1000 years. Their founder was
man named Jezriel, who is now dead. His